Not for: Not a template pack, and not a tool that keeps people in frame on its own. The crop is centred, and you move it where a shot needs it.
One footage, several shapes
You do not need a second shoot for the phone version. The highlight can be a wide 16:9 film, and the reel for sharing a tall 9:16 cut of the same footage, often to a shorter song. In Vantacut, each is its own Auto-Edit run with its own shape and song. Each clip is only watched once, so the vertical run pays for its own reel’s minutes only, and it opens on its own timeline beside the film, which stays untouched.
Pick the shape before you press Create
Under Shape, choose 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5. A 9:16 frame fills a phone held upright; 4:5 and 1:1 sit in a feed with room for the text around them. Trim the song to the reel you want, often well under a minute for a phone, because the reel is as long as the song. Pick Energetic for a party reel or Emotional for a quiet one, answer the questions about who matters, and read the plan before it cuts.
What the crop does
Footage shot wide is cropped to fill the tall frame, and the crop is centred. That works for most shots of one or two people in the middle of the frame. It does not work for a couple standing at the edge of a wide, for a walk that crosses the frame, or for a group spread across a stage. The crop stays centred unless you move it, so those shots are the ones to check.
Fix the crop, shot by shot
Walk the reel from the start. Where a face sits at the edge or a hand leaves the frame, adjust that clip’s crop so the moment is inside it. Where no crop can hold the moment, swap the shot for another angle from the same minute; the reel is ordinary clips, so a swap is an ordinary edit. Keep titles and names away from the top and bottom of the frame, where phone apps lay their own buttons and text.
Shoot with the tall frame in mind
If the package includes vertical reels, frame the moments that matter so they survive a centred crop: the ring, the garland, the first look, the kiss. Leave a little more space above heads than you would for a wide film, and when you have a second camera, shoot some of the key moments upright. Wide establishing shots of a venue rarely work in 9:16; close shots of hands, faces and details usually do.
Export for each platform
Export from the same timeline as MP4, MOV or WebM, rendered on your computer from your originals at full resolution. Check the file on a phone before you send it, the way the couple will see it. If you need both a 9:16 and a 4:5 version, make each its own run rather than cropping one into the other.
Your footage stays on your computer
Editing, playback and export run on your computer, and your original footage and songs never leave it. To find moments, Auto-Edit shares low-quality copies of your clips, still frames and the speech, and the app asks once before anything is sent. The editor works worldwide, in English; credit packs are priced in Indian rupees.
Questions
Can Vantacut make a 9:16 reel from 16:9 footage?
Yes. Pick 9:16 under Shape before you press Create. Footage of another shape is cropped to fill the frame, centred, and you can adjust the crop on any clip afterwards.
Does the crop keep the couple in the middle?
It is centred, and it stays where you put it. Walk the reel and move the crop on any shot where someone stands off-centre.
Which shapes can a reel have?
16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5. Pick one under Shape before you press Create; each run makes its own reel on its own timeline.
Get the editor
Windows and Linux now; macOS is coming. The editor is free; create your account when it first opens.